2013/5/20 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > Hi :) > Sometime during install it should ask if you want the new version to be > the default app for MS formats. Unfortunately i don't think it asks about > ODF formats. > > There is a page in the wiki about "Installing on Linux" that might help to > remove all versions and then reinstall the newer ones from the downloads > you kept. (You did keep the didn't you?). I guess you can always > re-download if you have to, or encourage a buddy too and then copy there's > "to check them". > > On Debian-family, incls Ubuntu you can remove all versions of LibreOffice > with a command something like > > sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* > > but please try > > apt-get --help > > (with a space just before the --) to check that is not the one tht removes > all your configurations too. There is one apt-get 'tag' to remove all > setting, configs and everything, and a different 'tag' to just remove the > programs but keep the configs. The later is usually preferable to avoid > having to set everything up the way you like again from scratch. > Regards from > Tom :) >
Thanks, Tom & Dan, but as I surmised, it was indeed a PPA thing and Rico Tzschichholz came through with an update that resolved my problem just 12 hours ago. Kudos to him for his great work - next time LO is updated, I'll attempt to exhibit a tad more patience !... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
